Content Licensing Manager

Summary

Join Business Wire as a Content Licensing Manager and contribute to the growth of their content licensing and distribution strategy. This role involves building and managing partnerships, negotiating agreements with strategic partners, and ensuring seamless execution of partnerships. You will be responsible for identifying and securing content distribution and licensing agreements with digital platforms, syndicators, press agencies, and other media outlets. This position requires strong negotiation and communication skills, operational fluency, and experience in business development, content licensing, or media partnerships. You will also be responsible for managing a portfolio of key partners, overseeing content delivery, and handling day-to-day functions such as journalist vetting, invoice approvals, and issue resolution. This role offers the opportunity to work remotely, excellent health benefits, a fitness allotment, tuition reimbursement, enhanced mental health resources, a 401(k) plan with a company match, annual profit sharing, and generous PTO.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Media Studies, or a related field
• 3–5 years of experience in business development, content licensing, media partnerships, or a related field
• Experience owning relationships from outreach to execution, with strong negotiation and communication skills
• Operational fluency — comfortable managing the details, not just the strategy
• Familiarity with CRMs (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce) and data analytics tools (Excel, Tableau)
• A team mindset: happy to pitch in and collaborate on a small team
• Process oriented with a desire to find new ways to modernize and scale a high-performing team

Responsibilities

• Identify, prospect, and negotiate content distribution and licensing agreements with strategic partners, including digital platforms, syndicators, press agencies, and other media outlets
• Perform outbound outreach, develop proposals, and manage contract negotiations
• Manage a portfolio of key partners, ensuring that all deal terms are met and that partnerships are aligned with broader company objectives
• Oversee content delivery and ensure partners are onboarded successfully and supported throughout the partnership lifecycle
• Handle core day-to-day functions such as journalist vetting, invoice approvals, and issue resolution
• Serve as the point of contact for internal teams (legal, product, tech) to execute partnership agreements and troubleshoot any operational issues
• Identify opportunities to streamline how we manage partnerships, including documentation, processes, and internal handoffs
• Help modernize team workflows and adopt new tools that improve efficiency and transparency
• Track partner performance and deliverables using CRM and project management tools
• Provide regular updates to leadership on partner status, market opportunities, and operational effectiveness

Benefits

• Ability to work remotely
• Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
• 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
• PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!
• The base salary range for this position is $110K to $120K/year.  Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data.  Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time
• 100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources